Tell Me Why · Gotts Street Park

57 bars, 3:34, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 21-22 and 37-50, and 1 more place -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 64 BPM
TELL ME WHY · BAR 16
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 5 sections: 46 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-55.

CHORUS
PART G
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
3 groovesBFGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tell Me Why?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Tell Me Why hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Tell Me Why?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 57 BARS ANALYSED
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